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The History & Examination form is being reviewed, and is not currently required by the SUDI national process. Please contact your local SUDI paediatrician to advise on local procedures.

The form is available for download here for those Board areas that wish to continue using it, however please do not submit to Healthcare Improvement Scotland at this time.

The Scottish Government recently issued CEL 21 (2013). The CEL informs NHS boards and other agencies regarding the coordination of SUDI reviews.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland is advising a Scottish Government SUDI working group about the current processes happening accross Scotland. The group is being informed about the role that professionals currently have when a SUDI occurs and the information we have to date from the SUDI reviews which have taken place. The group is working towards embedding processes into work within NHS Boards and other agemcies.

The group is ongoing.

Updated Guidance:

The COPFS Deaths Manual of Practice (Section 16) has been updated. Please click here to access the updated guidance.

The British Association of Perinatal Medicine has published the Sudden Unexpected Postnatal Collapse UK Guidelines in March 2011. Click here to download the guidelines.

On 18th January 2011, Shona Robison MSP; Minister for Public Health and Sport launched the SUDI Scotland toolkit.

The Scottish Government have launched a new Cot Death leaflet. These leaflets will be given to all expectant parents, to inform them of ways to reduce the risks of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI). View these leaflets at http://www.gov.scot/Resource/Doc/175930/0049530.pdf